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Mortality and mental disorders in a Spanish elderly population
Author(s)	Pedro Saz, Lenore J Launer, José-Luis Dia
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 12, December 1999
Pages	pp 1031-1038
Keywords	Mental disorder ; Dementia ; Depression ; Death rate [statistics] ; Living in the community ; Cross sectional surveys ; Spain.
Annotation	A baseline, cross-sectional study (two-stage screening) of some 1,080 older people (age 65+) living in the community was used to analyse the relationship between mental disorders and mortality rates in Zaragosa, Spain. 216 died during the 4.5 year follow-up (global mortality rate 4.8% per year). A logistic regression model was used, with sex, age, educational level, physical illness and AGECAT diagnosis as explanatory variables, and alive/dead as response. Both pure "organic" and pure "depressed" cases had higher mortality when compared with comorbidity cases. Results obtained indicate a significant association between psychiatric morbidity and mortality in older people living in a Spanish community. Mortality risk in psychiatric cases are higher than previously reported in the literature. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000329001 A
Classmark	E: EA: ENR: S5: K4: 3KB: 76S
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